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    Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @mediamogul
      last edited by

      @mediamogul also this is on os 7.5.5 with several performa roms and a quadra 650 rom. On a pi 3 i might try a fresh install as i used the files from a premade image.

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      • mediamogulM
        mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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        @edmaul69

        Mine is MacOS 8.1 with a Performa ROM. My basiliskii.cfg contents may help:

        extfs /
        seriala /dev/ttyS0
        serialb /dev/ttyS1
        udptunnel false
        udpport 6066
        bootdrive 0
        bootdriver -62
        ramsize 67108864
        frameskip 2
        modelid 14
        cpu 4
        fpu true
        nocdrom false
        nosound false
        noclipconversion false
        nogui false
        jit true
        jitfpu false
        jitdebug false
        jitcachesize 8192
        jitlazyflush true
        jitinline true
        keyboardtype 5
        keycodes false
        mousewheelmode 1
        mousewheellines 3
        dsp /dev/dsp
        mixer /dev/mixer
        ignoresegv true
        idlewait true
        
        

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        • edmaul69E
          edmaul69
          last edited by edmaul69

          @mediamogul well i found out the issue. for some reason it does not like my apple iie mouse. hopefully i can figure the issue out. i even play all my doom mods with this single button mouse. i ended up making my cfg like yours except that i have my ram up to 138412032. thanks for the help.

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69
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            I just tested and it actually skips in everything. Just never noticed before. This suxx...

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            • mediamogulM
              mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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              @edmaul69 said in Macintosh (Basilisk II) 8-bit Color:

              i even play all my doom mods with this single button mouse.

              Hah! Too kool.

              I just tested and it actually skips in everything. Just never noticed before. This suxx...

              Maybe it's just getting gummed up. It is one of the old ball-type mice right? Is it easy to take apart to clean?

              RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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              • edmaul69E
                edmaul69 @mediamogul
                last edited by edmaul69

                @mediamogul i am having trouble trying to install os 8 on basilisk ii on windows. I have an os 8.0 iso as my cd rom drive, 7.5.5 recognizes the files. But using the 7.5.5 image or a fresh image i cant get it to work. Are you able to tell me which rom you are using? Ie: quadra 900 (might have a much longer name) and cpu type. And are you choosing to boot from cd when it is launched? I get a black screen if i dont and i get the checkerboard screen if i do but windows immedietly has an error and crashes.

                Edit: with a blank hard drive and the os 8.iso as my cdrom drive choosing to boot from cd rom if i use the quadra 650 rom i get told about the startup disk wont work on this mac. But it brings up the b&w screen but then immedietly crashes if i try the quadra 900 rom. Im not sure how to get the basilisk on the pi to force boot the cd to see if i can install it on there. You said you used a performa rom. Curious about that.

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                • mediamogulM
                  mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                  last edited by mediamogul

                  @edmaul69

                  I setup my installation last May, so my memory on the details is more than a little hazy. However, looking over my backup files, I appear to have actually used a Quadra 900 Rom and a MacOS 8.1 install ISO.

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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
                    last edited by

                    @mediamogul ok. I will try to find the 8.1 install instead of the 8.0.

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                    • edmaul69E
                      edmaul69 @mediamogul
                      last edited by

                      @mediamogul so right now with quadra 650 and 7.5.5 hard drive on the pi it is letting me install os 8 so i will see how this goes....

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                      • edmaul69E
                        edmaul69 @mediamogul
                        last edited by edmaul69

                        @mediamogul Do you know if doom is an 8 bit or 16 bit game? I will definitely try this workaround you posted here. I might have some questions on how you did it, but i have to wait until 8.1 finishes installing.

                        Well i found my issue on windows, i was using basilisk v1 and switched to v2 and it worked!

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                        • mediamogulM
                          mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                          last edited by

                          @edmaul69

                          Nice.

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                          • edmaul69E
                            edmaul69 @mediamogul
                            last edited by edmaul69

                            @mediamogul so i put that info in the runcommand-onstart.sh in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/ like this:

                            # the line below is needed to use the joystick selection by name method
                            bash "/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/js-onstart.sh" "$@"
                            
                            if [ "$1" = "macintosh" ]
                            fbset -depth 8
                            fi
                            

                            and then i made a runcommand-onend.sh and made it executable with this:

                            if [ "$1" = "macintosh" ]
                            fbset -depth 16
                            fi
                            

                            and it still crashes

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                            • mediamogulM
                              mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                              last edited by mediamogul

                              @edmaul69

                              Does it actually crash, or does the screen go black and stay that way? Also, BuZz corrected me that the color depth should be restored to 32 on exit, rather than 16. I'll change it above also.

                              RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                              • edmaul69E
                                edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                last edited by edmaul69

                                @mediamogul it actually crashes. Then i have to restart the pi. Does that with and without the code

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                                • mediamogulM
                                  mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                  last edited by

                                  @edmaul69

                                  There must be something wrong with the install. That code only sets the framebuffer color depth. Even without it, there shouldn't be a crash, just a black screen.

                                  RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                                  • edmaul69E
                                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
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                                    @mediamogul i will try another virtual hard drive i made.

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                                    • edmaul69E
                                      edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                      last edited by

                                      @mediamogul so i did a fresh install of 8.1 (no update this time) uninstalled and reinstalled basilisk. No luck. Crashes everytime i switch to 256 colors. Even if i go directly into the monitor settings on os 8.1. But hey! If it means anything i managed to get the whole pi stuck in 640x480 256 so i could keep going back into os8.1 without rebooting. Lol

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                                      • mediamogulM
                                        mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
                                        last edited by

                                        @edmaul69

                                        At this point, the only difference between our two setups is the amount of allotted RAM. Is it possible that's the issue?

                                        RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                                        • edmaul69E
                                          edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                          last edited by

                                          @mediamogul nope i just tried that. A possible fyi with 132 megs of ram after i changed my colors to millions (32bit) after restarting it would load os8.1 but the desktop icons never came up and my cursor was stuck on the watch not allowing me to do anything. Once i switched it to 256megs of ram (268435456) it booted right up.

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @mediamogul
                                            last edited by

                                            @mediamogul also can you post the contents of your emulators file? Also are you just using a dummy start.txt file or did you modify it?

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